Learning to Talk

小J has been learning to talk in the past few months.

He learned so much during out time in HK and continue to add vocabs into his dictionary everyday.

Sometimes, he surprises us with the stuff that came out of his mouth.

In the beginning, he would all of a sudden blurps out a series of sound as if he’s saying a sentence, altho no one could understand a thing.

Maybe he was speaking in tongue! lol

Anyhow, he doesn’t do that much any more. He’s much better at using his words these days. However, he’s also a very short tempered person (probably takes that after me). So when we have trouble figuring out what’s being said (sometimes we don’t even know if it’s Chinese or English), we have about 5 chance or about 5-10 sec. During this period 小J would repeat what he said (which doesn’t really matter cos he’s saying it the same way everytime) and he would be more and more agitated during this period.

If we failed to guess the right word, then BOMB, 小J usually explodes into a ball of fury and from that point onward, he wouldn’t accept any correct or incorrect guesses no more. And yelling and crying is the end result.

Pretty stressful at times.

But situation is definitely improving as he acquires more vocabs and can pronounce better. Some of our favourite (and sometimes ‘wrong’) words that  小J says are:

meapmall (meatball)
mommymeme
ah-goo (yoghurt)
cottage cheese
油油
買coffee
魔菇 (蘑菇)
Yesh (yes)
aice (it means follow/inside but we don’t know what language this is in and whether it’s a real word or not. 小J  used it very consistently.)
Meemo key (maple key)
1,2,1,2 (in cantonese)

He can say a lot more. These are just some of our favourites.